This is the page which links to my ramblings, thoughts, updates, or other ideas in general which depend on date. They are listed below with their own grid items.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 1:34PM
In recent news, another state joins the odd movement of banning Kei cars, Massachusetts. More in this article on ArsTechnica.com. Another end to free choice One of the best virtues of the United States as a country was the ability to choose, as a consumer, what products we as a people want to buy. And a few power players in the different industries are moving to change that because they want less competition.
Read More...One of the things that was big in the news was the CrowdStrike global outage which effected Windows computers which were running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor. News article here. Linux heads, you’re not impervious to issues like this as this article here points out. Not a breach One thing I want to make clear before I get too involved is that this problem is not a breach or other cybersecurity incident. It was simply a botched content update file at the end of the day.
Read More...Now that I’ve primarly switched over to Linux, I have been working on another Python version of Ticket Auction Manager. This time under my dbob16/tam-py repo. Because Python is more flexible as a programming language, it has one extra feature compared to the Access-based versions prior.
The ability to add new tablesets, i.e different types of tickets and items, on the fly.
Read More...In recent news, Microsoft rolls out a new AI feature which will be available and possibly on by default for devices labelled with the “Copilot+” badging, called Recall. Which saves screenshots every few seconds and uses AI-backed optical character recognition as well as AI identification of images to save descriptors of said activities. The following linked video is by Eric Parker, where he plays around with the current implementation of Recall, and confirmed some findings by security researchers.
Read More...Oops, accidentally published this without finishing it, so here goes:
After being somewhat vocal about this one a while ago, I still keep seeing this issue where I work.
I think the reason why is for two reasons: 1. Chromebooks do cost less than normal computers of the same spec level. And 2. The advertising involved isn’t too honest about what they are.
Read More...Inspired from a recent comment thread I’ve seen, and was briefly a part of, I’ve decided to do my thoughts on the matter more drawn-out in a blog post. This is probably going to be a long one so hold tight.
For those who aren’t in the know, there is an interesting TikTok trend among creators on the platform to choose which one they’d rather encounter in the woods, a bear, or a man. Many of them will take the raw statistics of how much raw violent crime happens vs how many bear attacks happen, and will choose the bear.
Read More...Contrary to my previous article, just wanted to post one to highlight one area where continuing to use Microsoft and Windows for now makes much more sense, Enterprises. By day, I actually work for an organization with an enterprise-like environment in place, using mostly Windows endpoints and some Windows servers running on a cluster of hypervisors. And in that context Microsoft and Windows is easier and makes a lot of sense.
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